Leo Szilard Quotes

I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.

These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Whenever the competition is sleeping is when I shine.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but to those who see it coming and jump aside.

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game.

I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.

Any time you can get in a position to start to get some of the quality work in as early as possible, I think it gives you a leg up or at least gives you the opportunity to be really prepared for the first time you take the ball.

It's as much looking out your rear-view mirror as the windshield. You want to make sure you put your car in front of the right line. You're constantly looking behind you.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

We've gotta be trying to think of what's coming next before it comes next.

I outwit them, and then I outhit them

How do you beat Bobby Fischer? You play him at any game but chess. I try to stay in games where I have an edge.

Remember this: Anticipation is the ultimate power. Losers react; leaders anticipate.

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens.

He's extremely clever and I learn always so much when I fight with Lewis. He always knows exactly what you are going to do next with his experience, and that's what makes him so good on track with the battles. He's not very aggressive, always very correct, but always very good to anticipate what you are going to do.